Me: hey why don’t you go play outside or read a book I’m trying to cook some muffins
Son: ok mom!
What homeschooling is really like:
Son: Mom, what’s microbial endosymbionts
Me: what
Son: microbial endosymbionts
Me:…um…read the whole sentance
Son: …pigments are produced by one of three ways ….rarely, microbial endosymbionts.
Me: I mean does it say in your text book what it is?
Son: no it talks about physical structural colors and how the colors are a result of like…light scattering, interference, and diffraction and it explains it…but for the pigment colors it just lists these and doesn’t really explain…
Mom: ok let me see…so it says here…oh I got it….look cartenoids, ommochromes, papiliochromes, pteridines, tetrapyrroles…and all these those must be the microbial endoayslimes or whatever they are called
Son: I’m pretty sure…those are all pigments “sequestering from a plant source”
Me: *blank stare*
Son: I guess I could look each one of them up…it’s just really inconvient it doesn’t say that in the book I guess
Me: *takes large sip of coffee* good grief if this is seventh grade you’ll be splitting atoms in 10th grade
Son: “10th grade homeschooler makes atom bomb on kitchen table”
For anyone who thought this post was fake (I wish it was too)
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